Papers, 1906-1916 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1906-1916 (inclusive).

Personal and professional correspondence, speeches, articles, class notes and clippings. The personal letters illuminate, often in intimate detail, Milholland's marriage to Boissevain and her friendships with Max Eastman, Upton Sinclair, Irving E. Robertson, and other artists and radicals in Greenwich Village. The remainder of the collection reflects her work as a lawyer and her involvement in various reform causes: the citizenship question, the abolition of capital punishment, the related issues of prison reform and legal aid, and women's suffrage.

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